In Michigan, in 2008, Mitt Romney said: “I’m not willing to sit back and say, ‘Too bad for Michigan, too bad –too bad for the car industry, too bad for the people who’ve lost their jobs. They’re gone forever.'” January 14, 2008

But, just two and a half years later outside of Michigan: “That’s exactly what I said. The headline you read which said ‘let Detroit go bankrupt’ points out that those companies needed to go through bankruptcy to shed those costs.” June 3, 2011